Akhmatova's Petersburg / / Sharon Leiter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Leiter, Sharon,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 7 illus.

In the poetry of Anna Akhmatova the nineteenth-century myth of Petersburg, as the accursed, unreal city, is filtered through the vision of a poet born in Imperial Russia and destined to confront the terrors of Soviet rule. The city that emerges embodies loss and dislocation, continuity and miraculous survival. This "scholarly and imaginative study" (New York Review of Books) convincingly demonstrates that a good part of Akhmatovas verse could never have been written but for the Petersburg environment.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. The Early Petersburg Love Poems -- II. The Historical City in Transition -- III. The Terror and the War -- IV. The Postwar City -- V. Poem Without a Hero -- The Second Petersburg: Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Names and Subjects -- Index of Poems by Akhmatova